The king's officer pleaded with Him, "Sir, come down at once before my child is dead!"

I have come in my Father's name, but you refuse to accept me. If anyone else should come in his own name, you would accept him.

Now the will of Him who sent me is this, that I should lose none of all that He has given me, but should raise them to life on the last day.

Then Moses gave you the rite of circumcision -- not that it had its origin with Moses but with your earlier forefathers -- and you circumcise a male child even on the Sabbath.

Well, if a male child undergoes circumcision on the Sabbath, to keep the law of Moses from being broken, are you angry with me for making a man perfectly well on the Sabbath?

Even if I should judge, my decision is fair, because I am not alone, but there are two of us, I and the Father who has sent me.

His parents said this, because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone owned Jesus as the Christ, he should be shut out of the synagogues.

Jesus said to her, "Did I not promise you that if you would believe in me, you should see the glory of God?"

you do not take into account that it is for your own welfare that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should be destroyed."

Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone should learn where He was, he should let it be known so that they might arrest Him.

Yet it is nothing but the truth I now tell you, that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go away, the Helper will not come into close fellowship with you, but if I do go away, I will send Him to be in close fellowship with you.

Now we know that you know everything and do not need that anyone should ask you questions. For this reason we believe that you have come from God."

Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was for their welfare that one should die for the people.